| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- Preface / Jonah Gavrieli -- In Memoriam Eli Rosenberg / Noa Rosenberg -- Translator's foreword / Uri Themal -- Jacob Kahan. Imprisoned. Berlin -- Chaim Kahan. From Orlya to Brest-Litovsk -- Life under war conditions. Berlin -- On the move. Vilna, Warsaw, Kharkov, Saratov . . . -- Citizenship and the world of education-Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt, Marburg, Antwerp -- To Baku -- Zina and the oilfields. Baku -- Aron and the Black Gold. Baku -- Summer resorts during the War: Bad Harzburg, Bad Neuenahr, Bad Polzin -- Economic management in times of war and revolution. Petrograd -- Across the Front Line-Berlin, Warsaw, Baku, Moscow, Vilna, Kharkov, Kiev -- Expulsion from Russia. Baku, Kharkov, Yekaterinoslav, Moscow -- Fresh start in the West. Caucasian Oil Company. Copenhagen, Berlin, London, Hamburg, Wilhelmshaven -- Family in exile. Berlin -- Nitag. Berlin -- Devotion to books. Petrograd, Vilna, Berlin -- 36 Schl uterstrasse. Expulsion from paradise. Berlin -- The mavericks between the wars-European corporate networks: Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, London, Riga, Paris, Amsterdam -- The third expulsion. Paris, Lisbon -- Eretz Israel. Tel Aviv -- Sanctuaries. The family is alive. New York, Tel Aviv, Ma'agan Michael -- Illustrations -- Notes. |
| Abstract |
"The Kahans from Baku is a saga of a Russian Jewish family. Their story also provides an insight into the history of Jews in the Imperial Russian economy, especially in the oil industry. The entrepreneur and family patriarch, Chaim Kahan was a pious and enlightened man and a Zionist. His children followed in his footsteps in business as well as in policy, philanthropy and love of books. The Kahans from Baku takes us through a forced migration history in times of war and revolution and the 20th century's totalitarian regimes telling a story of fortune and misfortune in economy and everyday life of one cohesive family over four generations in Russia, Germany, Denmark and France, ending up in Palestine and the United States of America"-- Provided by publisher. |
